A young woman falls from a vehicle speeding down a quiet road. Battered and bruised, she turns her head to the person who comes to her aid. ‘Help her’, she whispers before her eyes close. Days later, the body of another young girl is found in a shallow grave just a few miles away. The similarities between the two girls are startling – same age, same frail body, same shocking red hair.

As the town fears there’s a serial killer living amongst them, Detective Gina Harte must put aside her own struggles at home, and catch the killer before he finds another perfect girl.

I swear Carla Kovach's books just keep getting better! Her Pretty Bones is such a whirlwind of a story, it keeps you captivated and guessing until the end. I loved the characters and the description that the author uses. Great book!

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Pub Date: 17 Jan 2019

I would like to thank NetGalley, Bookouture and Carla Kovach for a copy of Her Pretty Bones.
The is the third instalment of the Gina Harte series and like the others in the series, this is another excellent instalment. The quality of her writing is always consistent. I have loved them all.
Toby is driving along Laurel Lane, listening to the Ace of Spades in his car, when a door of a van opens ups in front of his car and a girl falls out of the van. Toby breaks, thinks she has killed her. He calls for an Ambulance and she is rushed to hospital. The girl is really ill, very thin and she has a wound in her side and her fingertips are burnt off. Gina Harte is the Senior investigation officer on the case. Who is this girl and why is she in the state she is in? Then, another girl is found on a development site, dead, buried in a shallow grave. Are these two deaths related?
This is another gripping instalment of this series, told in several points of view that come to an inclusion in the end. The story also continues about Gina still healing from what happened after her last case. She is still fragile, but with her determination she still wants to find the perpetrators of this case. This story has great characters, great story line, which can be gritty in parts but I loved it. I will wait in anticipation for the next one.

This is book 3 in the Detective Gina Harte series and it did not disappoint me. I love the character development of Gina and the way the story was written from three points of view, including Gina's. Just when I thought I had it all figured out, the author threw in a curve ball! A great tightly woven plot, full of unpredictability and showing the vulnerable side of Gina.My thanks to Net Galley for my ARC. Reviews on Goodreads and Facebook.

Brilliant book, love the way Carla writes, she gets you into the storyline straight away and I was hooked from the beginning with this excellent page turner.

I really enjoy reading about Gina Harte and all the characters are excellent I felt as though I knew them personally.

Can thoroughly recommend this book and I look forward to reading more from Carla Kovach in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read this fantastic book.

This is the 3rd book in the series and I've been lucky enough to read all 3! This is a great series, but ... I have to say, that I didn't enjoy book 3 as much I enjoyed the first 2. The main character, DI Gina Harte, is definitely going through a change and you can feel it in how her character was portrayed. I'm hoping in the next installment she finds herself again. I felt that some of her "oomph" was missing. With that being said, I still recommend this book but you definitely need to read this series in order; this is not a stand alone novel.

Thank you #netgalley and #bookouture for the eARC.

Reminiscent of Lisa Scottoline or Wendy Walker. Her Pretty Bones was a riveting and suspenseful story. It’s the 3rd installment in the Gina Harte series. This book can hold its own as a stand alone novel or as part of a series. The tales of Gina Harte get better and better with every sequel. Her Pretty Bones kept me on the edge of my seat and guessing until the very end. 4 stars.

Det. Gina Hart is back - battered and psychologically bruised from her last assignment and nows she head deep in a case of girl who fell from out of the back of truck.

Her Pretty Bones boiled down to a good mystery, but the one problem I had was the swiping back and forth between the Gina's POV and that of the missing girl. Sometimes, the changes were abrupt and I didn't realize who's POV i was in.
Having said that, this was a really good story and as always, the protagonist of DI Hart is consistent and true to form.

Excellent book! Loved the characters and it was a great storyline. I would highly recommend this book.

I received a free e-copy of Her Pretty Bones by Carla Kovach from NetGalley for my honest review.

Wow, Wow, Wow, what a thrill of a read. Although this is book three of this series, which I wasn't aware of when I requested it, I had no difficulties reading this and understanding what was going on. I am so thrilled I had the opportunity to read a book by Carla Kovach as I am now going to go back and read this entire series. Fabulous author, outstanding characters, and a plot that keeps you guessing till the bitter end. Outstanding!!!!!

A girl falls out of the back of a van, a car has to quickly stop, as to not run her over. The driver, who is helping her now is waiting for the police to come.

Gina Harte, is the SIO on the case. The girl is in a medically induced coma and no one knows who she is. The girls fingerprints are burned off and they have no way to identify her. Who is this girl and what has happened to her.

Then another young girl is found and she looks a lot like the first girl that was found. What is going on? Is this the act of a serial killer? Are other girls lives in jeopardy? This book has so many twists and turns and as soon as you think you have it figured out something new comes into play. This is a must read for anyone who loves a good and trilling detective series.

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This is the third book in the Gina Harte series by Carla Kovach and can be read as a stand-alone. Kovach provides the readers another rollercoaster suspense novel. This police-procedural is character driven and offers the reader alternating points of view throughout the narrative. In attempting to solve a missing person case, our main character, SIO Gina Harte, battles both the internal conflict from past trauma and the extrinsic disaster of having a potential serial killer on the loose. The emotional maneuvering of the characters’ personality traits is masterful. The plot is multidimensional and tightly woven to create the perfectly paced storyline. Fantastic read, 5 stars.

Thank you Netgalley, Bookouture, and the author for an ARC of this exciting novel.

I love this series and couldn't wait to read this new one, and it didn't disappoint.
This is a wonderful that is both a crime thriller and a dark psychological study with plenty of twists and turns.

With engaging characters and pacey unpredictable plot, this novel is a must read. Can't wait to read the next installment in this series.

A girl falls out of the back of a van on a rural lane. She has clearly been badly treated over a long period of time and asks that her rescuers 'help her' before she loses consciousness. When another body of a young woman is found in a shallow grave, Detective Gina Harte and her team have to face the possibility that they have a bigger problem on their hands as they sort through missing people reports and start to look at the local drugs culture.

Although this is the third book in the series, it is the first I've read and works as a stand alone novel. There are references to previous novels which (I think) give away a fair amount of the plot, so you might want to start at the beginning of the series if you plan to read them all.

This was well plotted and well written. It kept me reading, although I couldn't always remember who was who on the police team. I'll admit that I found it all quite bleak and grim though, more than I expected because of the drug addiction scenes.

Overall, this is an engaging and lively crime novel, although not one for the weak of stomach.

The Detective Gina Harte series is one of my favorite police procedural. In the last installment, Gina Harte was caught up in the twisted world of the villains. In this case, she is still healing from her ordeal. However, Gina has to push her personal trauma to the back of her mind and catch a new serial killer before another body is found.

This was an interesting missing persons’ case. Although there are alternating chapters that give the girls’ perspective, I couldn’t really tell what exactly was going on. Were they being held captive? Who was their captor and why were they being held? How did the girls go missing? I had so many questions just like the detectives and very few answers at first.

This is the kind of case where the villain’s identity is hard to guess. I absolutely had no clue. I also liked the fact that there were alternating POVs that made it easy to follow the case from different angles. One POV in particular was so emotional to read. I can’t imagine the nightmare that parents’ go through when their children go missing. In this story, we get to follow a mother as she searches for her daughter. Her narrative was captivating but quite heartbreaking. I was so nervous wondering what kind of answers she would find.

Her Pretty Bones is another great installment to this series. Like the other books, it is well written with nail biting suspense that will have you nervously turning pages as you seek answers. Although this can be read as a standalone, the series is better enjoyed if read in order because the character development is part its charm.

A dark, captivating and twisty crime mystery. Recommended for fans of cop procedural, especially for those who enjoy series with strong female detectives.

DS Gina Harte is on the case of a young girl who appears to have fallen out of a moving van. Followed by the remains of another girl found in a local garden. Suffering ptsd after an attempt on her life can Gina cope with the case and her own health?

I love Gina Harte she is a total ball breaker and seeing a more vulnerable side to her in this book gives more depth to this character. Can’t believe this is the third book already. Loved it from start to finish

Her Pretty Bones Carla Kovach

If Carlsberg made Cops.

DI Gina Harte is back. She is probably the most troubled female Police Inspector on the shelves right now, and at the same time she is probably one of the best fictional cops on the shelves at the moment.

When a young girl falls from the back of a van it quickly becomes apparent that she has been held against her will, she is undernourished and drug dependent, but who is she.

Harte’s teams first task is to identify the girl, then find out what has happened to her.

But this won’t be the last young girl found. Nor will it be the last one the team have difficulty identifying.

At the same time a mother is looking for her runaway daughter, could either of the two unidentified girls be her daughter, or could their story hold the key to finding her.

This book looks into the homeless runaways we see sleeping rough on our streets.

Not all of them come from unloving homes and many of them have families who are frantically looking for them, scared of every knock on the door in case its bad news.

Hartes team run their investigation without knowing about the desperate mom, are both looking into the same thing.

People on the streets tell their story to the mother, where they won’t talk to the Police. As a reader frustration builds when the two sides aren’t communicating. When the mother is left to walk the streets talking to people in the hope that she will uncover some clue to her daughters whereabouts.

The things she hears are hardly comforting, drugs, prostitution, shop lifting, abuse, assaults are day to day experiences for some of the rough sleepers.

This book made me stop and think more than many others have over the years.

Carla Kovach has written a wonderful story. Gina Harte is one of my favourite characters, but for me the star of this book is that Mom who is looking for her daughter.

I cannot begin to imagine what a parent would go through when a child goes missing. And yes I know what goes on, on the streets, but somehow it was all brought home in this book. The horrors of sleeping rough, making allegiances with people that can only bring danger, but in a weird way offer security.

This is a subject that I have read about in other books, but this is by far the best.

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Publisher: Bookouture
Publishing Date: 17th January 2019

Such a big fan of this series and writer. Could not wait to read this installment and it did not disappoint! Detective Gina Harte is a great character and I always look forward to more.

This is a tough book to review without giving anything away. A young girl falls out of the back of a transit van early one morning. This begins the case - why was she is in the van, where has she been and why is she in such bad shape. She is taken to hospital and in a coma. Not long after, the remains of another young girl are found on a building site and it is too much of a coincidence for Gina. Can she discover what is happening before more girls turn up dead.

Thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for my advanced copy of this book to read. All opinions are my own and in no way biased.

Whoop Whoop to say I was absolutely thrilled to see the next installment of the Gina Harte series was ready is an understatement, having read Her Final Hour, I was hooked on this series. Carla Kovach is able to draw you in straight away with prologue, gets you thinking, how does this all tie in?

A girl falls (questionable!) out of the back of a transit van, another car had to make an emergency stop so as not to run her over, the driver tends to her, she is emaciated and a wound on her stomach like she has been cut, he tries to stem the bleeding until the police arrive.

Gina Harte is appointed SIO on the case, she has her work cut out for her, with the girl in a medically induced coma, she has no way to identify her, her fingerprints have been burned off her, how do they figure out who she is and who did this to her?

When the body of a young girl is discovered quite similar in looks to the girl in the van, they have to question, do they have a serial killer on their hands?

As a side line story, a girl named Christina has run away from home, its been 3 months with no contact and her mother is frantic, searching and putting up posters looking for information leading to her whereabouts, her partner, Roy doesn’t seem to perturbed by her disappearance!

Whilst on another note, there is a young girl, Miley who looks after Jackie, in return for looking after Jackie, she is given drugs or her medicine as she calls it. However, all it not as it seems as they are both locked in their individual rooms…..

Gina is also dealing with a lot of personal issues, she has anxiety/panic attacks from being attacked and nearly murdered in her kitchen from the last case, she is also still suffering flash backs of her abusive husband and if that isn’t enough, she has a rocky relationship with her daughter! How does she keep it altogether!

Right that’s enough, some snippets of the basics of whats going on, I’m keeping stumm on the rest but suffice to say that if you love a good detective series with plenty of twists and turns, psychologically wow!!….. you really need to put Carla Kovach’s Gina Harte’s series on your list, you will not be disappointed!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

This book was a 5star psychological thriller!! Hooked me from the very beginning and never let go. This was dark and had so many twists and turns. Kept me on my toes.
Great characters, really well developed. They were easy to love and empathize with and some were equally as easy to dislike!
Very well done. Can’t wait to read more by Carla Kovach. Well done!

Thank you to Netgalley, Bookoture and Carla Kovach for the chance to read and review this book.

Her Pretty Bones is the third book in the Detective Gina Harte series and is every bit as exciting and heart stopping as the previous books. Once again it starts out strong, this time with an ominous prologue about two sisters. The older sister has a pale, sickly pallor and strawberry blonde curls and is smaller and weaker from being premature. Her younger sister resents her and punishes her for being the favourite and is adamant that anything the older sister has is hers too.

We then return to the present day where Toby is on his way to his new job early one summer morning when a woman appears to jump out of a white van and land in front of his car. She has a gash to her abdomen, is severely malnourished and her organs are failing. She also has red hair. While Gina and her team attempt to discover the woman’s identity, how she came to be in this state and who was driving the white van, another body is discovered in a shallow grave nearby. This young woman is also undernourished and has red hair. Who is this killer and where will he strike next? Also, who was the first girl referring to when with her final words she pleaded ‘Help her’?

This novel was full of suspense from the start. There were a vast array of characters who seemed unconnected but were expertly linked together as the story went on. There were some hard to read scenes in this book, mostly for me it was the ones that detailed the awful state that the woman being cared for was in. It was heartbreaking reading how such a vulnerable person could be neglected and harmed like that by those who claimed to love her. I was rooting for her to be saved as much as the girl forced to try and care for her night and day. As we raced to the conclusion the tension rose further and I was pulled into the story even more. I loved how the author weaved seemingly unconnected characters and parts of the story together in such a seamless way. There had been a few times I thought I had the culprit or where the story was going figured out only to be surprised and proven wrong.

Gina Harte shows herself time and again to be a fighter for those who can’t fight for themselves, a voice for those who can’t speak and a woman to admire and look to as a modern day heroine. She has a strong sense of right and wrong and is tormented by her failings. She gives her all to her job and the victims who need her, often to the detriment of her personal life. The more books in this series I read, the more I fall in love with this character, and with this author.

Ms. Kovach has a talent for writing captivating, multilayered stories that show both the best and the worst that humankind are capable of. She puts your emotions through the wringer as you read and has you on the edge of your seat as the suspense makes it impossible to put the book down. A riveting psychological thriller, this is a crime series not to be missed and an author who is a must read for sure.

Out January 17th

This is my third Carla Kovach book and just as enjoyable as the previous two. I like the character of Detective Gina Harte and her imperfect life.
The case begins when a very ill girl with red hair falls out the back of a van. She is critically ill but her fingerprints have been burned off to hinder identification. Shortly after a second body of a young girl is found also with red hair.
The story is written from three POV including that of Detective Gina. I liked how the story unfolded and they were lots of times you thought you had it figured out and then the author would suddenly reveal a piece of info that completely changes your mind.
Looking forward to book four!
Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for an ARC in return for an honest review.
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